Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date: January 23, 1894
Creator: Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 23, 1898 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 23, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 23, 1898
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge. (open access)

Suspension-Bridge.

Patent for a suspension bridge that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 411,499). This patent is meant to "decrease the vertical motion in floor of min span of bridge, thereby adding stability thereto; to provide for a new and improved anchorage for the suspension cables of the bridge; and, furthermore, to improve certain details of construction" (lines 15-20).
Date: January 23, 1894
Creator: Greer, William Henry Clay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History